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How three senior travel leaders learned to stop 'trying to have it all'
During an emotional and thought-provoking break-out session at the 2024 Advantage conference, Celebrity Cruises’ Claire Stirrup, Royal Caribbean’s Ben Bouldin and Meon Valley Travel’s James Beagrie shared their career ups and downs and how they found balance
SeaDream unveils new ports for Caribbean and Mediterranean
The luxury yacht cruise line has added new ports to its summer and autumn sailings
Agents told to expect longer call waits during Classic Collection restructure
The On the Beach-owned operator confirmed the B2B brands would merge and be called Classic Collection earlier this week.
'This is how you create a culture of care in the workplace'
Creating safe spaces to talk and listen might not incur any more cost than teabags and biscuits, but could mean the world to someone that needs to air an issue.
Lucy Langtry

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Transatlantic carrier JetBlue cuts winter Gatwick flights
The airline made the decision to reduce its flight frequency due to rising operational costs and patchy demand
New Travel Village Group training academies will take agents 'on a journey'
Running between September 2024 and May 2025, the first academy will give agents the tools to boost their river cruise sales
Apex deployment 'elevates' Celebrity's ex-UK offering, says president
The 2,910-passenger Celebrity Apex ship will return to Southampton next summer
Carbon budgeting to become 'a necessary step to stay ahead of regulation'
Advantage conference delegates told regulations will force the industry to become more mindful of, and responsible for, its carbon output – and to formally account for it as it would financials
Kelly Green returns to Hays Travel as assistant cruise lead
Green has spent the past five months at Club Voyages as the luxury agency’s retail lead
Advantage to put new tools at members' disposal to help them cut carbon
Consortium upgrades partnership with Thrust Carbon to provide members access to new tools, educational webinars and regulation guides to support their efforts to measure, analyse and reduce their carbon impact
Eurostar to invest in 50 new trains to meet 'huge' rail travel demand
Chief executive Gwendoline Cazenave says the investment will provide more capacity as train operator looks to service an additional 11.5 million passengers in the next six years
The Travel Marketing Awards announces shortlisted finalists
Nearly 100 companies have been shortlisted for 34 awards which will be handed out at a ceremony in London on 4 July
US govt may prosecute Boeing over 737 Max crashes
According to multiple media reports, the US Department of Justice has given Boeing until 13 June to respond to the allegations
Upside down waterfalls, Bond scenery and home hospitality: touring the Faroes
With new flights launching this summer with Atlantic Airways from Gatwick, the North Atlantic archipelago is closer to the UK than ever before.
Niamh Folan

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EasyJet to launch new base and routes from Southend
The three aircraft to be based at the airport will boost operations at Southend that started in 2012 with seven million customers served to date
Tauck aims to grow UK presence with series of trade educational events
The in-person seminars will run between 9 and 13 September in Bristol, London, Sutton Coldfield, Manchester and Harrogate
EasyJet trims winter losses in preparation for positive summer
Capacity growth, stable fuel costs and a strong performance from easyJet Holidays have put the airline in a strong position for the summer season ahead
EasyJet names new chief executive as Johan Lundgren steps down
EasyJet chief financial officer Kenton Jarvis will replace chief executive Johan Lundgren when he steps down from his role early next year
Advantage chief: 'Travel must come together behind a single aim'
‘During Covid, many industry leaders talked about never wanting to be in the same position again should there be another crisis – so where are we now, and what have we learned?’ asks Julia Lo Bue-Said
'Like phoenixes from the ashes': nearly one in five Advantage members to open new branches this year
New branch openings among existing Advantage members up by 55% compared with 2019, consortium reveals at conference in Cancun
Not Just Travel recruits Eamonn Holmes to champion its agents
The broadcaster and journalist said he has always preferred booking his trips through an expert, adding the value of travel agents was further enhanced during the Covid pandemic